Abram Keller Shaifer (1774 - 1860)

Born 9 Oct 1774 in Frederick, Maryland

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth Hannah (Humphreys) Shaifer — married 16 May 1817 in Claiborne, Mississippi, USA

Descendants

Died 26 Apr 1860 at age 85 in Port Gibson, Claiborne, Mississippi, USA

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Biography

Name

Name: Abram Keller /Shaifer/^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}

Birth

Birth:

Date: 09 OCT 1774

Place: Antitamin, Frederick, Maryland, USA^[11][12][13]

Death

Death: Age: 89

Date: 26 APR 1860

Place: Port Gibson, Claiborne, Mississippi, USA^[14][15]

Event

Event:

Type: Civil

Date: 1 August 1838

Place: Bienville, Louisiana, United States^[16]

The A. K. Shaifer House was built in the late 1820s in Port Gibson, Mississippi, by Abram Keller Shaifer Sr. and his wife, Elizabeth Hannah Humphreys Shaifer (sister of Governor Benjamin Grubb Humphreys). It was the site of opening shots of the Battle of Port Gibson on May 1, 1863, and the house was used as a surgical hospital for wounded soldiers. A. K. Shaifer Jr. was away from home, in service to the Confederate army, at the time of the battle, but he returned to the house after his release from a prisoner-of-war camp and established friendships with Union veterans who had fought on his property. Shaifer hosted reunions at the house and sent potted flowers from the battlefield to Union soldiers' graves every Memorial Day from around 1900 until his death May 30, 1921.

The Shaifer family donated the house and grounds to the state in the late 1970s, and the property was transferred to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in 1999. Restoration was undertaken in 2006, under the direction of architect Robert Parker Adams, as part of the TEA-21 Mississippi Civil War Trails Project. Historian Charles L. Sullivan of Perkinston, Mississippi, took these digital photographs of dedication ceremonies held at 10:30 a.m. November 20, 2007, at the A. K. Shaifer House, and donated them to MDAH in November 2009.

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Residence

Residence:

Date: 1822

Place: No Township Listed, Claiborne County, MS^[17]

Residence:

Date: 1830

Place: Claiborne, Mississippi, United States^[18]

Residence:

Date: 1840

Place: Claiborne, Mississippi, United States^[19]

Residence: Age: 74

Date: 1850

Place: District 1, Claiborne, Mississippi^[20]

Burial

Burial:

Place: Port Gibson, Claiborne County, Mississippi, USA^[21]

Marriage

Marriage:

Date: 5 Jan 1857

Place: Claiborne, Mississippi^[22]

Note

Note: Abram left home before he was 16. He had a trader's store at Tellies Garrison in TN where Sam Houston, of Texas fame, clerked for him at one time.

A.K. Shaefer, J.P., performed a marriage ceremony in Roane Co, TN in 1809

According to an article about Willoughby Williams, in the Nashville Tennessean newspaper dated Sunday, March 11, 1979: But while he was still a young boy in Roane County, Willo became a staunch friend of Sam Houston. Willo's mother lived three miles from Kingston, and he at 13, began working at a store of "Mr. Sheffy" there, where 18 year old Houston was a clerk.

This confirms a story long in family lore.

December 4, 1807: Abraham Keller Shaifer commissioned as Justice of the Peace for Roane County, Tennessee

December 21, 1807: "Appeared in Open Court and being satisfied they had been duly commissioned as Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Roane severally took an oath.

On June 20, 1809, "Ab'm K. Shaifer, Esquire, presented his resignation as Justice of the peace for said County, which was acepted by theCourt and ordered to be recorded and certified to the next Legislature of the State of Tennessee. "

Source: County Court Minutes Roane Co., Tenn.

He apparently went from Roan County to Sumner County, Tenn, and On August 7, 1814 there is a deed recorded of David Watson to Abraham K. Shaifer, $100, 1/2 lot, where Watson now lives in Gallatin.

On Aug 14, 1815 he witnessed a deed from William and Abraham Trigg to John H. Bowen.

Source: Deed Abstracts Sumner Co., Tenn. Deed Book vol. 7, p 205 and 296.

Family tradition says that he traded goods down the Mississippi River to Mississippi and on one

Mississippi Census records:

1820 Miss. Census Claiborne Co. A.K. Shaifer listed with:

1 male & 1 female under age 10

2 females age 16 to 26

1 male age 26 to 45

1830 Miss. Census Claiborne Co. Abraham K. Shaffer listed as head of the family with:

1male & 1 female under 10

2 females 16 to 26

1 male 26 to 45

Abram K. Shaifer was sheriff of Claiborne Co. MS at one time.

Marriage

Husband: Abram Keller Shaifer

Wife: Elizabeth Hannah Humphreys

Child: Abram Keller Shaifer

Relationship to Father: Natural

Relationship to Mother: Natural

Marriage:

Date: 16 May 1817

Place: Claiborne, Mississippi, USA^[23]

Sources

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18. ↑ Source: #S-483070466 Page: 1830 US Census; Census Place: Claiborne, Mississippi; Page: 76; NARA Series: M19; Roll Number: 70; Family History Film: 0014838 APID: 1,8058::1327796
19. ↑ Source: #S-483070469 Page: Year: 1840; Census Place: Claiborne, Mississippi; Roll: 213; Page: 70; Image: 145; Family History Library Film: 0014840 APID: 1,8057::2247289
20. ↑ Source: #S-483078477 Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: District 1, Claiborne, Mississippi; Roll: M432_370; Page: 117A; Image: 239 APID: 1,8054::3376137
21. ↑ Source: #S-483071967 APID: 1,70614::81571
22. ↑ Source: #S-483241586 APID: 1,7842::536847
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